All in the wrist? Fingering your Threadripper's TIM

If you are looking for advice on how to install and cool a Threadripper. [H]ard|OCP have quickly become the site to reference. They've benchmarked the majority of waterblocks which are compatible with AMD's big chip as well as publishing videos on how to install it on your motherboard. Today the chip is out again, this time it is getting a manually applied TIM facial. Check out Kyle's tips on getting ready to coat your chip and the best way to spread the TIM to ensure even cooling.

"AMD's Threadripper has shown to be a very different CPU in all sorts of ways and this includes how you install the Thermal Interface Material as well should you be pushing your Threadripper's clocks beyond factory defaults. We show you what techniques we have found to give us the best temperatures when overclocking. "

Latex glove and fingering it you say! Well that's a step up from the treatment that Nvidia is giving to AIBs, PC OEMs, and Laptop OEMs under those Entities' own respective gaming branding, and by extention(Big Long Extention) to consumers also.

Nvidia's doing it long, hard, and raw with no Latex or Thermal-Compound provided to folks with that Green Brand single 21st digit that's not part of any finger or toe based option. Nvidia's got that BOHICA over the entire gaming market with that GPP program and GPP stands for Getting Poked Perpetually while bent over like a daisy in a hurricane.

I wonder about the effectiveness of the extra dabs of TIM being applied over the active die areas. Seems to me that it might actually be going too far. Hence the "footprint" failing to reach the opposite corners, instead of 100% coverage. (?)